10 Large Cities With The Fastest Growing Salaries For 2016

Which large cities saw the highest increases to salaries this past year? (image credit: Shutterstock)

If you are on the prowl for a great large city to move to in order to start or advance your career, it would make sense to research where paychecks are getting bigger. Who knows? Maybe yours will as well.

This week we connected with workforce data company, Headlight Data, which assembled some recently released information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on salaries—where they are high and where they are growing quickly. Also, where they are growing slowly.

We folded the numbers into an easy-to-read slideshow depicting the large American cities where wages grew the fastest between 2014 and 2015. Check it out below!

All of the cities on the list Headlight Data compiled beat the U.S. average salary growth rate for large cities, which stands at 3.1%.

Topping the chart, in terms of salary growth, was San Jose, California, which saw more than 7.5% growth this past year. The average salary in the Silicon Valley city was over $112,000. Increases there, one can surmise, were due in large measure to technology companies and the gains in salaries among those in that industry, pushed higher by increasing demand for talent.

Another well-known Silicon Valley city you might expect to be on the list, San Francisco, also made an appearance on the top-10, though perhaps not as high as you might have imagined. The City by the Bay clocked in at number 7, with salary growth last year at less than 4.1%. The average salary there is just over $82,000.